Word: mayr
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...Linnaean Society, a New York-bused group of naturalists, this week awarded the first Eugone Eisenmann Modal for Excellent in Ornithology to Emat Mayr, professor of Zoology emeritus...
...Mayr is a noted authority on birds of New Guinea and the South Pacific, which he studied extensively as curator of the department or ornithology at the American Museum of Natural History before coming to teach at Harvard...
...happy and proud, naturally," Mayr said yesterday. "I knew Dr. Elsenmann for many years, and I am happy to be the first recipient of the award named after...
...Mayr has in the past worked closely with the Linnaean Society, and recently initiated a seminar program there to introduce aspiring ornithologists to the current ornithological literature, Mayr said. He also helped the society to publish an important monograph on the song sparrow...
James R. Killian Jr., retired president of M.I.T.: The five indispensable books are Darwin's Origin of Species, Freeman Dyson's Disturbing the Universe, Ernst Mayr's Growth of Biological Thought, the works of Thomas Huxley, James Watson's Double Helix, René Vallery-Radot's Life of Pasteur, Eric Ashby's Technology and the Academics: An Essay on Universities and the Scientific Revolution and Sir WiLliam Cecil Dampier's History of Science. And the Bible. And Fowler's Modern English Usage. Also Spengler's Decline of the West, Henry Adams...